Forget more schooling; Don't waste your time and money. I spent a semseter in a CS program at a large University in the US. After doing class assignments on myspace, correcting the TA's on *nix commands, and talking to third year CS students who couldn't tell me what a kernel was I decided to just drop out and go work as a Systems Administrator. You want to learn something? Go to the library.
1. What exactly is your point? The Pirate Bay provides a service and makes money off of advertising. How does that conflict with their supposed "...'free music' rhetoric."? In addition, I have found no statements from the piratebay promoting or otherwise stating that they have a "...anti-establishment 'free music' rhetoric." One might say that is implied with the nature of the service they imply, but that argument is weak at best. Not only that, but it does not answer the original question.
2. AllOfMp3.com is being sued and they are not legally licensed to sell copy's of music. All true and valid. But I really don't see why that was put in the article.
3. Yeah, I like word play too. By selling the music one illegally that in and of it self makes them a criminal. By having more than one person there is now a gang or a group. If that gang or group attempts to work in an efficient matter they are organized. Therefore if Bob and Alice decide to sell pirated music and they organize themselves, they are now a "Organized criminal gang". Selling CD's is not used to laundering money. Rather laundering money could be used in the selling of pirated material. If you were not aware laundering money is best known as a process to conceal where the money came from. The purpose is so that the methods used to generate the money appear to be genuine. Usually this may involve setting up a company where one can make fake transactions. These fake transactions then amount to the sum of the money generated illegitimately. Now, one can pay taxes on the money and have it appear as though it were generated through legitimate transactions. These terrorist groups you speak of? Care to back that up with some hard evidence and not just he said she said hearsay? Further more, an "Organized criminal gang", or a "terrorist group" could sell t-shirts to generate money. That does not mean selling t-shirts is morally wrong.
4. Not necessarily true, not necessarily false. I can just as easily say I don't pirate independent labels just as easily as I can say you do.
5. Reduced revenues also means less money to spend on buying Zeppelins. Just because they can does not mean they will.
6. Actually, no. ISP's are already implementing traffic shaping to reduce network load caused by file sharing service such as Bittorrent. http://www.torrentfreak.com/canadian-isp-is-thrott ling-bittorrent-traffic/ Also, what's with the bit about ISP's advertising free legal music?
7. Realistically there are not many movements that create jobs. However the results of such movement often times can. Also, Id like know exactly why you think these "pontificating" people know so little about a "commercial world"
8. Id like to know more about Chinese demographics myself. Specifically Id like to know, just what the median income in income is? Wikipedia tells me it is
about $8,000 US. Now after costs of living, how much is really left over to spend on CD's that cost $20 bucks a pop?
9. Well personally me and my ten best friends think there is nothing wrong with music piracy. So according to a study done by an American pro-piracy grou pmost people see nothing wrong with piracy.
10. Actually, peer to peer networks are hotbeds for finding new music. Ever heard of a group called Umphrey's McGee? Well I hadn't until I found a taping of
one of their concerts on a Bittorent tracker.
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This is not Evolution this is Natural Selection. Get it right noob sack.
Forget more schooling; Don't waste your time and money. I spent a semseter in a CS program at a large University in the US. After doing class assignments on myspace, correcting the TA's on *nix commands, and talking to third year CS students who couldn't tell me what a kernel was I decided to just drop out and go work as a Systems Administrator. You want to learn something? Go to the library.
Suing over open office would be the dumbest idea ever. The amount of pulbicity generated around open office would skyrocket the user base.
1. What exactly is your point? The Pirate Bay provides a service and makes money off of advertising. How does that conflict with their supposed "...'free music' rhetoric."? In addition, I have found no statements from the piratebay promoting or otherwise stating that they have a "...anti-establishment 'free music' rhetoric." One might say that is implied with the nature of the service they imply, but that argument is weak at best. Not only that, but it does not answer the original question. 2. AllOfMp3.com is being sued and they are not legally licensed to sell copy's of music. All true and valid. But I really don't see why that was put in the article. 3. Yeah, I like word play too. By selling the music one illegally that in and of it self makes them a criminal. By having more than one person there is now a gang or a group. If that gang or group attempts to work in an efficient matter they are organized. Therefore if Bob and Alice decide to sell pirated music and they organize themselves, they are now a "Organized criminal gang". Selling CD's is not used to laundering money. Rather laundering money could be used in the selling of pirated material. If you were not aware laundering money is best known as a process to conceal where the money came from. The purpose is so that the methods used to generate the money appear to be genuine. Usually this may involve setting up a company where one can make fake transactions. These fake transactions then amount to the sum of the money generated illegitimately. Now, one can pay taxes on the money and have it appear as though it were generated through legitimate transactions. These terrorist groups you speak of? Care to back that up with some hard evidence and not just he said she said hearsay? Further more, an "Organized criminal gang", or a "terrorist group" could sell t-shirts to generate money. That does not mean selling t-shirts is morally wrong. 4. Not necessarily true, not necessarily false. I can just as easily say I don't pirate independent labels just as easily as I can say you do. 5. Reduced revenues also means less money to spend on buying Zeppelins. Just because they can does not mean they will. 6. Actually, no. ISP's are already implementing traffic shaping to reduce network load caused by file sharing service such as Bittorrent. http://www.torrentfreak.com/canadian-isp-is-thrott ling-bittorrent-traffic/ Also, what's with the bit about ISP's advertising free legal music?
7. Realistically there are not many movements that create jobs. However the results of such movement often times can. Also, Id like know exactly why you think these "pontificating" people know so little about a "commercial world"
8. Id like to know more about Chinese demographics myself. Specifically Id like to know, just what the median income in income is? Wikipedia tells me it is
about $8,000 US. Now after costs of living, how much is really left over to spend on CD's that cost $20 bucks a pop?
9. Well personally me and my ten best friends think there is nothing wrong with music piracy. So according to a study done by an American pro-piracy grou pmost people see nothing wrong with piracy.
10. Actually, peer to peer networks are hotbeds for finding new music. Ever heard of a group called Umphrey's McGee? Well I hadn't until I found a taping of
one of their concerts on a Bittorent tracker.